Civil Society

Giving Compass’ Take: •  This report outlines how and why AAPI groups need to harness strategic communication via storytelling to advance civic engagement and action for AAPI communities. • The…

Whether it’s a pandemic, climate disaster, or seeking new economic opportunities, humanity has been on the move since the earliest of times. In the United States, more than 40 million…

Afghanistan has received enormous amounts of foreign aid over the years, but despite the investment of funds and various efforts to build state capacity, the government quickly fell to the…

Giving Compass’ Take: • A 2021 report at Independent Sector slides philanthropy under the microscope, investigating U.S. citizens’ current state of trust in nonprofits. • Why is it important to…

Cyberspace and online platforms, and their underpinning digital technologies, have played a central role in economies and societies becoming more reliant on Information and Communication Technology. This has many implications…

You successfully led Liberia through the Ebola epidemic from 2014 to 2016 — helping stop the disease within your country and preventing its spread beyond West Africa. What advice do…

Over the last year, our public interest technology team at New America interviewed people working in and around governments across the country. The same resonant themes emerged again and again.…

Statistics-packed spreadsheets and lengthy, jargon-filled reports can be enough to make anybody feel dizzy. It’s natural. That makes it the responsibility for those of us involved in government and its…

Does civil society address questions of values in ways that government and business cannot? This question makes sense if we presuppose limits on the values government and business can express.…

In the 1950s, while doing research for a book on political participation, the social scientist James Q. Wilson found himself attending a lot of citizen engagement meetings on urban planning.…

RAND associate economist Jhacova Williams shares the motivation behind her recent study examining to what extent historic lynchings could be linked to the contemporary voting behavior of Black Americans who live in the South.…

“Gritty” students have the makings of great citizens, according to new research published in the British Journal of Political Science. In a survey of North Carolina middle and high schoolers, kids…